BILLU BARBER is all set to hit the screens coming Februray. Remake of the Malayalam super-hit, KADHA PARAYUMBOL, the Priyadarshan directed BILLU BARBER has been produced by Shah Rukh's Red Chillies Entertainment. This is for the first time the maverick filmmaker Priyadarshan and Superstar Shah Rukh Khan have worked together.

BILLU BARBER has Irrfan Khan playing the title role and Shah Rukh Khan essaying an extended guest appearance (the one essayed by Mammootty in the original), a role of about 45 minutes and also shaking his legs in 2-3 item numbers with his favourite ladies Kareena Kapoor, Deepika Padukone and Priyanka Chopra. Apart from Irrfan Khan and Shah Rukh Khan, the film also stars Lara Dutta who'll be seen playing Irrfan's wife in the movie. Other cast includes Om Puri, Asrani and Rajpal Yadav.

Billu's (Irrfan Khan) life is changed when a film unit arrives at his village for shooting a movie. To Billu's surprise, the star of the movie is none other than Sahil Khan (Shah Rukh Khan) who was Billu's old school friend. Instantly, Billu becomes prominent man in the village and attains fame and respect. Villagers urge him to make acquaintance with the superstar, but Billu is intimidated by his friend's superstar status. He thinks that Sahil would never acknowledge his friendship with a barber. Billu strives to meet the star but is unsuccessful. Finally, he fails after lots of struggle.

People suspect that Billu is fibbing in order to gain fame and start offending him. Billu's family and children become apprehensive about his claim. In the end, for an invited school function, the star reveals his past. He tells the audience that in his school days he had a friend who always stood by him in his hardships. He tells how much the friend helped him by providing food when he was hungry, provided clothes when he did not having any. He tells that the friend gave him the money to join acting by selling his ancestral ear ring and that friend happens to be Billu. At that time the people recognize about Billu and the movie happily ends.